Got our own scam like this going in Seattle. The NBA is pushing for the City and County to issue bonds to build a new gigantisaur-type arena in an area that is now full of machine shops and manufacturing companies. An area that supports the employment of about 50,000 people full time will be replaced with a single facility that will employ about 400, part time. Probably at or around minimum wage.

The Mayor wants it, the local millionaires want it, the stooge basketball fans want it, and the city cannot support the finances at all on it. The traffic factors alone would cost the City about half a billion to mitigate. The only people urging any sort of caution on the subject are the folks who actually handle the number crunching for the State and County. Tax the people to pay for a playground for the wealthy and let the owners keep all the cash generated.

Deathfrogg:Got our own scam like this going in Seattle. The NBA is pushing for the City and County to issue bonds to build a new gigantisaur-type arena in an area that is now full of machine shops and manufacturing companies. An area that supports the employment of about 50,000 people full time will be replaced with a single facility that will employ about 400, part time. Probably at or around minimum wage.

The Mayor wants it, the local millionaires want it, the stooge basketball fans want it, and the city cannot support the finances at all on it. The traffic factors alone would cost the City about half a billion to mitigate. The only people urging any sort of caution on the subject are the folks who actually handle the number crunching for the State and County. Tax the people to pay for a playground for the wealthy and let the owners keep all the cash generated.

We're still paying off the Kingdome for chrissake.

Houston/Harris County is still paying off the damn Astrodome, as it sits there and rots.

YixilTesiphon:Deathfrogg: Got our own scam like this going in Seattle. The NBA is pushing for the City and County to issue bonds to build a new gigantisaur-type arena in an area that is now full of machine shops and manufacturing companies. An area that supports the employment of about 50,000 people full time will be replaced with a single facility that will employ about 400, part time. Probably at or around minimum wage.

The Mayor wants it, the local millionaires want it, the stooge basketball fans want it, and the city cannot support the finances at all on it. The traffic factors alone would cost the City about half a billion to mitigate. The only people urging any sort of caution on the subject are the folks who actually handle the number crunching for the State and County. Tax the people to pay for a playground for the wealthy and let the owners keep all the cash generated.

We're still paying off the Kingdome for chrissake.

Houston/Harris County is still paying off the damn Astrodome, as it sits there and rots.

They won't tear it down nor will they allow anything to happen with it. I'm all for the casino idea if Louisiana would stop lobbying the TX state government to keep us driving 100 miles to spend our money there.

Now the new Dynamo stadium is awesome! City paid only $27.75 million and the county paid only $7.75 million at a time when there's a hiring freeze for police officers and we can't balance our budget! We don't need more cops and city infrastructure; we need more stadiums!

and this is surprising coming out of city built entirely from drug money? there are 10s of banks in down town miami and the 'financial district' that are solely surviving off blood money of 30 years ago. crooked to the core.

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER:Fark the SEC. It's a thieving free-for-all on Wall Street, but they can't seem to even prosecute, let alone convict anyone. The SEC couldn't find their asses with a geiger counter and a barium enema.

There are only two possible conclusions; either they're retarded, or they're in cahoots. Your choice.

There's a third option:

Wall Street is in cahoots with the law makers, and the SEC can't put any one in jail because the way the laws are written, no laws were actually broken.

Flab:UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: Fark the SEC. It's a thieving free-for-all on Wall Street, but they can't seem to even prosecute, let alone convict anyone. The SEC couldn't find their asses with a geiger counter and a barium enema.

There are only two possible conclusions; either they're retarded, or they're in cahoots. Your choice.

There's a third option:

Wall Street is in cahoots with the law makers, and the SEC can't put any one in jail because the way the laws are written, no laws were actually broken.

I think it may be all three. Any way you slice it, the system is broken. Everything seems to be trickling up. Hell, I want rich people to be rich. But not at my expense. They're supposed to be rich so they can pay me more. I want to be rich too. But I won't steal to do it. Stealing seems to be the only game in town, and the Sheriff is either incompetent, drunk and locked in his own cell, or profiting from the scam.